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Wake a Sleeping Tiger

Chapter 4 Cullen

Word Count: 2268    |    Released on: 19/06/2022

there?" Her voice was

en chair before moving

trieving the medica

lved with ops on the ca

yes fathomless,

n the books." He slappe

shirt. Let me

take it off herself. Gri

, teeth grinding, a

ore covered her more t

e sight of the rounded top

and falling with ea

him and held it on her l

ss her arm before clea

e shallow wound, Cullen

clearin

one of my shirts to wea

n

n she was actually ign

she should have

led one of the shortsleeved shirts from a han

assured him, pushing

d around. "Don't you e

ly well in the dark." H

be as he star

as coming undone, heavy

ures and emphasize her

him ache like a teenager

to accomplish what he

endurance it would have

knew she'd pushed that

new didn

n take me home." She ro

n without expression b

ker in her eyes then,

ust as quickl

. ." he beg

about Louisa, could yo

e assured him that if h

se into i

owning down at her. "H

he'd done what three t

been ab

e." She looked like a l

round her face and those b

tion but wasn't in the ar

those little sighs. "I

when I saw they were hu

direction they were pus

o the compound

story h

y like to go ho

ight," he informed her

ognized and that Samara

's even more insane tha

after you, consider yo

ote

ead. "She won't

e bit out, his fingers c

rking her against him, and

ed in him

unless Louisa dies."

ted her gaze to him then,

them. "It'll take a miracl

nst the ragged pain in h

my report whe

a vehicle slowing in

front window, Cullen t

at her f

," she said on an inhal

tivated the alert when we

omething to wear. I'll m

nd started f

ea," he warned her, wat

reso

softly. "It was over b

days later from her cou

rough Chel

ested in

rvive her injuries.

need me

her bed, her arm wrap

le with the grief tha

That sweet, beautiful

hat inflicted the dama

ttered her and left her

and the cries, ju

it was

ent his senses sharpen

an pulling in information

ugh for his head to jer

before it

it on an overactive i

nd more often i

'd last seen Chelsea.

refused to be pushed ba

'd seen her, a month

'd be back. When she

n it another week. Som

ted it might take a whil

st had to w

n; that steel will insid

on to rule her once again

after her report on Lou

orror she'd fa

me sixth sense warned

tside his office now. So

n't

n't Ch

open without a knock. T

the panel silently beh

kin

he had once been calle

created one for himself,

dd be

ss was an old and fam

wore it like an intima

since Graeme had foun

r actually seem

a

e had a feeling this mi

me

eet tall, and the prima

were absent. They only

rather than the anim

l, as Graeme called the t

revealed itself in striki

ause grown m

wins at birth, but over

and the monster Graeme po

semblance to each other.

f Cullen a

ant?" Cullen snapped. I

tried to follow. Though

had once been-or it jus

blond brow, that mocki

becomin

sed. Almos

iled to bode

by and visit with my fa

hat's wrong

ing," Cullen grunte

her's gaze glittered w

dn

," Graeme stated then,

eme, always

the one name guaranteed

to know why he was so

is brother

e, remember? It's Grae

was an edge of warn

of the warnings when

idden cells beneath dir

ented o

d leave me the hell alon

ack to the files he

hot since the night he'

s desert

r from her or to see her

lips asking for her posit

h

a bit, but he'd make ce

ing her into some less

walk through t

er the hell he was cal

front of Cullen's desk

t to be there. Except th

nd Cullen wasn't in the

mat

look on your face, but

his head to the side, a t

? I haven't seen you for

n the

help in

. Hyde personality of

n intelligence that

ilence, his hands resti

avage features f

y instinct his brother

with frightening ease.

into

red, feeling as disagr

oked. "Tor

tired of waiting for Ch

amned tired of everyo

but her. As though she h

f a part of their lives. E

for him to ask if they'd

that satisfaction was

ends since Cullen had b

ti

ason I'm here." Gideon

ked me to come check on

r agents. When asked abo

though to speak is to co

ing look. "You're encro

ce such reactions, not a

ours

sed lit

as going to kill Graeme

d fe

ime with your woman, g

rry ass. I'll send your

sed, his fists clenchin

back. He'd been after a g

d willing to

ve him a fight,

m suspiciously for a m

he chuckled, his tone b

he point that you'd actua

ession toward

e up from

f this b

he snarled. "Or I'll n

name. "I'll make damne

istake

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